Need explanation on client copy & database copy.

[Former Member]

We have decelopment with 3 clients

Test with one client

Production one client

With a database copy from Production to Development which is not advised by Sap.

I would loose all my clients and all version management ??

Also If I had applied for example support pack 52 in developmemt but Production was at support pack 48

Would this put Development back to support pack 48

Whar are the major differences between doing a client copy compared to a database copy.

I already mentioned some of the differences but I'm looking for

more suggestions.

THANKS

Joe

[Former Member]

Hi Joe,

sorry to tell you, that you are in pretty bad luck in general ;-((

It is NOT allowed to use a client copy with different support packs !!!

=> BEFORE you update support packs on one site, you will do a client copy !

=> A systemcopy would be good now in order to get rid of this problem ...

Yes, you would lose all clients and versions ;-(

What can you do here ?

- Version Export: note 130906 describes this in detail and the import afterwards as well ...

- missing clients: You could copy the smaller clients to PRD which shouldn't take too long as they are hopefully small. Otherwise you could export them and reimport later on (after that you updated the Support Packs in your DEV)

=> There are options, but as you did a lot of errors by now, it is not a totally normal procedure ...

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.de - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de

[Former Member]

Volker

You're always very helpful.

When you run a database do support packs get overwritten.

If you have Test at support pack 52 and P01 at support pack 42, the database copy will not put Test to support pack 42???

The support packs are at the unix level ??

Thanks again

Joe

[Former Member]

Hi Joe,

no, the packs are overwritten back from 52 down to 42 with a systemcopy.

but, this is in my eyes your only chance, as you cannot test in any other case as you forgot the client copy before ;-((

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.de - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de